Greenland Predator by Ray Duffill
Greenland is constantly in the news at the moment (January 2026), and discussion rages as to the island’s apex predator.
This pepper, sliced by the author in 2019, bears a resemblance to the alien from the cinema franchise. Any similarity to a world head-of-state is purely coincidental.
It’s not the first time that the U.S. President has been depicted in pepper format, though, as The Register reported in 2016.
Paragon finished by Rob Stirling
How I did it in Affinity – Rob Stirling
Found 2 similarly oriented photos, I couldn’t find a rocket to suit the original news headline one.
I found another Paragon Station and a rocket from Thomas the Tank, which matched up
Rocket layer moved down so wheels were below the platform, then a Mask applied.
Rocket layer rotated slightly to suit checking and editing mask to suit.
The Rocket layer was flipped horizontally to suit the Paragon track.
When satisfied, I merged the visible by selecting a layer, right clicking, and selecting from the menu.
I opened the original screenshot of the news item, copied Ctrl-C, then selected the Paragon project and pasted Ctrl=V which adds as a new layer.
Edited the size and position of the layer to fit my project in the desired position, overwriting the original photo, and added a mask to bring back the top half of the letter H.
Hand print could be world’s oldest cave art by Ray Duffill
Oldest cave painting of red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline.
The oldest Spanish cave art is a red hand stencil in Maltravieso cave in Western Spain, dated to be at least 66,700 years old – though this is controversial and some experts don’t think it to be that old.
BBC News
News photo challenge!
Can you create a photo that evokes a smile in response to the news of the day? Then email it to rlduffill@gmail.com with a caption and links explaining where you got the story from.
Photos should be funny and non-offensive.
If this series is successful, we will be able to review the year via Friday Funnies photos.